The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-01-06
TIE LABOR MOVEMENT.
STRIKES THAT RESULTED FOR GOOD
OR FOR Ill.

The Demand for Eight Hours-The Big
Bomb Throwers-Big Packing House
Strilses-Street Railway Tie Ups.
JANUARY.
6. Great strike and lockout of the engi-
neers of the elevated railroad system of New
York city. Travel was almost entirely sus-
pended for a day or two.
90. A riot occurred at Mount Pleasant, Pa
The police and the Hungarian strikers had
collision, III which several of both parties
We're injured
%. Six thousand glovemakers of Johns
town and Gloversville, N. Y, struck.
FEBRUARY.
s. The employees of the New York Seventh
avenue, Fourth avenue, Sixth avenue and
Broadway surface roads strike successfully
for reduction of hours.
MARCH.
/ 3. Brooklyn street car lines all "tied up"
s. General tie up of the street railroads
of New York city. 1t required $50 police
lnen to force a car through Grand street,
where q great crowd had assembled.
g. Five hundred men, Knights of Labor,
employed in the Missouri Pacific railroad
shops at st. Louis, quit work at the blowing
of the noon whistle. One thousand other en-
ployes who were also Knights also struck.
The freight business of the road is paralyzed.
T. Secret meeting held at st. Louis, at
which the passenger engineers, brakemen,
switchmen and firemen of the Missouri Pa
cific system decided to join the freight ham
dlers and carshop strike Accordingly none
of them reported for work, and 5000 miles
of rood idle. Immense freight blockade.
O. Employees of the Troy and Lansingburg
street railroad at Troy, n. Y, struck for
fewer hours of work Demands granted.
g. Five thousand employees Of the "Gould"
railroad system were discharged on the Mis-
souri, Pacific
TO- Vice-President H. NJ Hoxic, of the
Missouri Pacific railroad, declines to confer
with the knights of Labor or a committee
from the strikers
2S Jay Gould accepted proposal for ar
bitration. Mr.. Powderiy orders the men to
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| 60 The district assemblies E. of L. refuse
/ to obey Powtlerlys order, and instruct the
| Missouri Pacific strikers not to resume work.
81 Martin Irons issues a general order to
| the Knights to resume work on the Missouri
I Pacific.
| 81. Six hundred and fifty morocco workers
of Wilmington quit work
81 Strike of Cohoes spinlers ended About
| 1000 persons affected.
APRIL.
1. Tho strike on the Gould roads has been
resumed on account Of the refusal of the COM
pany to reinstato all the strikers.
8. "Bloody Saturday" ct Fort Worth,
Texas. Strikers resist the movement of
trains, firing a volley from Winchester rifles
into posse Of deputy sherifTs, killing one and
mortally woundng two others The officers
replied with revOvers killing one striker.
5. Mr. Powderly formally recalls his order
to the Missouri Pacific strikers to resume
| work
g. Deputy sheriffs in East St Louis fire
into a crowd, killing seven persons, only one
of whom was striker.
IA PowGcrly makes an appeal to Gould for
the settlement Of the southwestern strike.
Gould replies, justifying his action and re-
fuSing to grant the request of the Knights for
arbitration.
16. A general tie up ordered on the New
York City Third Avenue Street railway
1G Martin Irons, the leader i'll the great
southwestern strike is, with three Others III
dictcd by the grand grand jury at st. Louis,
for tampe,ing with telegraph wires
IS. Widow Landgraff boycotted in New
York city for employing non-ullion bakers
49, The Third avenue street strikers,
New York city, wreck a car and have a
short but savage fight with the police
49, The great tie up of the New York city
street railroads is off, with the exception of
the Third avenue line.
20 Trains are running without molestation
OH the Gould roads, although the strikers
still profess to be confident Of ultimate sue
cess.
90 The house committee at Washington
begins its investigation Of the strike on the
Gould reads. 1t was continued for some time.
25 Sugar house employees at Williamsburg,
n. Y. on strike for an increase of wages.
I rs Thirty-five members of the New York
Tailors union indicted by the grand jury for
boycotting.
g. The striking operatives of the Missouri
| Car company have resumed work. The Bal
timore street car strike has also come to an
end
81. The Third avenue street car strikers,
New York city, put on free coaches for the
accommodation of persons who would other
wise be compelled to ride in the cars.
so. Chairman ODonnell, Secretary Best,
and Graham, Hughes and Downing, of the
Empire Protective association, indicted by
the grand jury at New York for ordering the
tie up of the Third avenue cars.
MAY.
| l. Chicago trades unions demand a uniform
working day of eight hours, without reduc-
ton of wages. The same demands are made
in many other cities.
J. Forty thousand men in Chicago go on
strike for eight hours. Strikes for similar
y.
4. Am attempt by the Chicago police to dis
perse q meeting of Anarchists was followed
by riot i'll which dynamite bomb was
thrown by the Anarchists among the police,
killing six and wounding sixty-one.
5. Rioters fired upon and several killed by
the state militia at Milwaukee, Wis.
s. More shooting occurred at Chicago be-
! tween the police and Anarchists, and leading
rioters were arrested.
G. Milwaukee rioters indicted.
O. Tho pianomakers of New York have
abandoned their demand for q reduction to
eight hours day.
10 Big strike at Chicago ended.
| TO- About 1900 girls, employees Of the
Troy, n Y, collar and cuff factories, locked
out by the manufacturers on account of the
strike of the laundry girls at George T. 1de &
Co : establishment.
2l Eight thousand tailors locked out by
the Boss Tai!ors' union, New York city.
JUNE. =
2. John Most, convicted Of inciting to riot,
was sentenced to Imprisonment at hard labor
for one year and to pay filie Of f5O0 ct New
| York.
s. The convention of Knights Of Labor, at
Cleveland, closed. The differences with the
trades unions were not satisfactorily ad djusted-
f. Female members of the families OF the
striking Chicago railroad men stop trains by
standing upon the tracks.
; Fourteen thousand horse car men, Of
New York, Brooklyn and Long Island City,
quit work.
6 Tho Empire Protective association gives
I'D tie fight against the Third Avenue road.
l.. At the meeting of the Brotherhood Of
Telc~ranhcIi, at Kansas City, it vas decided